About Rafe

I reinvested myself in martial arts training and weightlifting. Then I encountered the work of George Herbert and Le Methode Naturelle and took my practice into the natural world. Climbing trees, lifting logs, swimming, and carrying rocks underwater.

I chose to focus on parkour as the primary discipline to base my approach on and moved to Seattle to co-found Parkour Visions, the West Coast’s first parkour gym.

Over the 5 years I was the head instructor at Parkour Visions, the ideas behind Evolve Move Play continued to gestate. I started offering martial arts classes through the gym; I slowly migrated to training primarily in nature again. I took an interest in other movement cultures, and in 2013, it was time to walk away from the parkour gym and invest fully in Evolve Move Play.

Since then I have traveled the world teaching, studying, immersing myself in natural movement training and research.

My students have included world-class parkour athletes, MMA fighters, and untrained grandmothers, and the common theme in their responses to my approach is that it is life-changing on many levels.

My passion is to help people build the physical practice that will help make them the strongest, most adaptable and resilient version of themselves in movement and in life.